WARP 10 FOR WES CLARK

Fire up the warp drive. Wesley Clark is con­vinced peo­ple will one day be able to travel faster than light — a feat Einstein and oth­ers have deemed impos­si­ble.
“During a whirl­wind cam­paign swing Saturday through New Hampshire, Clark, the newest Democratic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date… dropped some­thing of a bomb­shell,” reports Brian McWilliams for Wired News.

“I still believe in e=mc, but I can’t believe that in all of human his­tory, we’ll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go,” said Clark. “I hap­pen to believe that mankind can do it.“
“I’ve argued with physi­cists about it, I’ve argued with best friends about it. I just have to believe it. It’s my only faith-​​based ini­tia­tive.” Clark’s com­ment prompted laugh­ter and applause from the gath­er­ing.
Gary Melnick, a senior astro­physi­cist at the Harvard-​​Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said Clark’s faith in the pos­si­bil­ity of time travel was “prob­a­bly based more on his imag­i­na­tion than on physics.“
While Clark’s belief may stem from his knowl­edge of sophis­ti­cated mil­i­tary projects, there’s no evi­dence to sug­gest that humans can exceed the speed of light, said Melnick. In fact, con­sid­er­able evi­dence posits that time travel is impos­si­ble, he said.
“Even if Clark becomes pres­i­dent, I doubt it would be within his pow­ers to repeal the pow­ers of physics,” said Melnick. 

THERE’S MORE: Glenn Reynolds, who used to chair the National Space Society, says the General’s faster-​​than-​​light dreams might not be so off-​​base.

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